From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 15:14:17 MST
> (Hal Finney <hal@finney.org>):
>
> I know you have rejected this advice in the past, but you should consider
> going to school and getting a degree. This will give you more credibility
> and ultimately make it easier to get funding. Drexler had to do the
> same thing. Sadly, credentials are often more important than quality
> of ideas when you are trying to get taken seriously.
I occasionally come to the same conclusion, but I have yet to
act upon it, because for the time being having 20 years of
experience programming is enough to keep me employed and doing
the other things I enjoy, and the idea of becoming a 40-year-old
freshman never seemed too appealing.
Do you, or does anyone else on this list, have experience with
alternative-but-accredited-and-generally-respectable outfits like
University of Pheonix, or Excelsior College (formerly Regents
University of New York) that seem to offer more tolerable shortcuts
to sheepskin? Can they really shorten the process considerably,
and are they worth the costs?
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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